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Post by ozznova on Mar 18, 2009 13:13:03 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if I did have it, but my best friend (who's had a genuine Aspie boyfriend) says I don't. She's more intelligent than I am, so I trust her judgement.
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Post by Paradox on Mar 18, 2009 14:02:57 GMT -5
I do.
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Post by amindfarfaraway on Mar 18, 2009 17:51:27 GMT -5
I'm also pissed at the public school system, cause I was so fucking bored in class that I never learned how to pay attention and now don't really know anymore how to learn things. One would think that having a first grader correct the teacher that yes, you can indeed subtract 7 from 5 and that it's -2 that perhaps, just maybe, said kid should be tested for honours classes or possibly even having courses from a higher grade. Instead the school systems I was in refused to test me, even though my siblings were in honours classes, because I was only a "C" student, because I was too fucking bored and saw no point in doing work below my abilities. That's nothing. When I was 3 (and therefore exceptionally literal-minded by anyone's standards) I was tested for the local Sylvan center because I was begging to go to kindergarten. Results? "She doesn't know her phonics rules." They had presented me with a list of gibberish "words" (to make sure I hadn't just memorized words) and asked me "What does this say?" As far as I knew, it said something in some mysterious foreign language, but I certainly couldn't get any sense out of it. "She can't identify civil servants." To a 3-year-old, the question "Who is this?" translates as "What is this person's name?" I didn't know the fireman's name, but I damned well knew he was a fireman. As far as I was concerned, I hadn't been asked that. My three year old daughter is a fucking genius. She can spell, count, and she has other thought processes that kids generally don't develop until long after they've started school. We don't think she has Asperger's, though, and in some ways, I really hope she doesn't. I know what kind of problems it's caused me, and I don't want her to have to go through some of the things that I've been through.
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Post by Mira on Mar 19, 2009 4:52:36 GMT -5
I may or may not have it. I have looked it up while I was bored and I feel like the symptoms apply to me, but I have never sought a formal diagnosis. I would bring it up with my psychiatrist, but I have more pressing sociological issues at the moment.
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Post by Lady Renae on Mar 19, 2009 4:54:42 GMT -5
Self-diagnosing is a problem, especially when a condition is receiving as much media attention as the autism spectrum has been receiving lately. It's almost becoming a convenience diagnosis like ADD and ADHD became and still are.
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Mar 19, 2009 4:56:57 GMT -5
I've got Aspergers Syndrome, and wasn't diagnosed until I was twelve. For me, I knew I was different - a stranger living in a strange world. On the upside, when dealing with Aspergers people, I know I tend to be dealing with smart folks.
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Post by Lady Renae on Mar 19, 2009 5:00:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I wasn't diagnosed until seventh grade. I blame that on my denialist mother.
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Mar 19, 2009 5:48:16 GMT -5
Oh, I went through developmentally delayed, poor socio-economic circumstances, just plain weird and it's all in my mum's head as potential causes of my problems. I have my fights with my mum, but she moved Heaven and Earth to get me diagnosed.
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Post by Lady Renae on Mar 19, 2009 6:15:46 GMT -5
I have an ex whose mother "moved heaven and earth to get him diagnosed"... turns out he didn't have it, but he didn't get to find that out until years later because his mother went to one psychologist after another until one of them did what she asked. This is the kind of woman who gets books that say things like "no matter what you do your child WILL do drugs. there is no avoiding this. here is what to do when you finally catch them."
She's got... issues. What's worse is she's a professional psychologist herself. I feel sorry for her clients.
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MysticalChicken
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Post by MysticalChicken on Mar 22, 2009 4:01:20 GMT -5
I have it, but I wasn't diagnosed until I was in my mid-20s.
Probably explains my need/desire to put as much detail and explanation as possible into most of the stuff I write.
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POSW
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Post by POSW on Mar 22, 2009 21:37:41 GMT -5
I do have Asperger's (and have been diagnosed), but it's only a slight case. I'd probably be able to be completely normal if it wasn't for ADHD.
Thank God (if he exists) for ADHD, and fuck being normal.
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Post by anti-nonsense on Mar 24, 2009 15:48:41 GMT -5
I'm somewhere on the autistic spectrum, somebody suggested Asperger's at one point but my current label is Pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified.
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Post by Angel on Mar 28, 2009 18:14:06 GMT -5
I am not aspie, but I have some aspie characteristics. I think it goes with being an INTP.
When given work to do for my training, I answer the questions literally. This often turns out to be a bad thing as apparently I am supposed to magically know what they wanted me to write when they asked that question. I either get on very well or very badly with supervisors. Some specify what they want me to do, I do it and do it well, and they think I'm amazing. Others tell me what they want me to do, then criticise me for doing what they told me to do instead of what they actually wanted me to do but didn't tell me to do. They think I'm stupid and unable to communicate effectively, I think they're an irritating asshole, and it goes downhill rapidly from there.
Then they write a load of rubbish on my permanent record about how I need to work on my communication skills, when actually the main root of the problem is that they have made massive assumptions about me, which could have been cleared up in about ten seconds by actually, I don't know, ASKING me about them.
I am also overly analytical. But I like that about myself. I hate inconsistencies in others and in myself.
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Post by gotpwnt on Mar 28, 2009 20:43:19 GMT -5
/raises hand
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Apr 8, 2009 16:24:26 GMT -5
Mum has a number of books on her shelf about Asperger's, and I got sent to a lot of analysts and prescribed medications in my youth and adolescence, so I might. I don't think I've ever been told directly, though, so I'm not sure. Hey, remember when I posted this? Turns out I do have it. Who knew? (Answer: Mum.) Yeah, it came up when filling out forms for jury duty. *makes face* Hoping it can get me out of it.
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